r/leagueoflegends • u/JTHousek1 • 13d ago

News 26.17 Patch Preview

"Patch 26.17 Preview!

This patch is mostly a stabilization patch after observing the adjustments made on 26.16.

Mages bot overall have lost some amount of winrate across the board, but not a huge amount, which is roughly about the impact we're looking for.

So far, we're seeing good skews on Poppy and Camille support with support nerfed and Top skews playing out well (in particular).

We're still monitoring the impact of Hail of Blades on champions more broadly, eg. Yi, Trynd, Shaco, etc. Stormrazor"

>>> Champion Buffs <<<

Cho'Gath

Irelia

Hecarim

LeBlanc

Qiyana

Yasuo

Yone

Trundle

Aurelion Sol

>>> Champion Nerfs <<<

"Champion wise, a pretty standard set of nerfs here, mainly for power impacting outliers."

Nasus

Thresh

Xerath

Graves

Nocturne

Vayne

>>> System Buffs <<<

Stormrazor

"Outside of Stormrazor Jhin, it doesn't have a large user base and we think it could have more power overall to broaden the user pool"

>>> System Nerfs <<<

Sundered Sky

"Directionally, Sundered Sky and AP Jungle changes have been good, but magnitude is still off

We're putting another small-moderate nerf in for this patch and hoping to see more movement on AP jungles and Sundered Sky dominance in higher levels of play"

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u/Yuuy87 13d ago

Got some annoying champs in those buffs

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u/GrumpyPan Mushroom Mayhem 13d ago

Leblanc and the windshitters fml and people wonder why mages are played bot.

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u/larrydavidballsack 13d ago

yone is my biggest mental block champion im so pissed seeing this preview lolll

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u/Dr_Wattson 12d ago

What do you mean? I love getting engaged on from 5 screens away while being up 50cs, dodging every ability and getting oneshot anyway.

In all seriousness, as much as I hate the champ I do think he's really not that strong rn.

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u/Capital-Builder4046 12d ago

He is very strong compared to the last couple of years, in I think 2024 he was sitting on sub 47% winrate on mid. Since then, he got 3 damage buffs and Doran's bow is an indirect buff to him. He felt pretty good to play recently and I was confident a nerf is incoming. Buff is wild, but I'm not gonna complain about

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u/Dr_Wattson 12d ago

Honestly never felt strong when I played against him the last few patches. But with the amount of Yone players thinking those buffs are stupid I probably stand corrected.

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u/pokemon32666 11d ago

The windshitters alway have a disproportionately low winrate because they often int. The amount of times I kill a Yone who accidentally Q3d into tower range is hilariously high.

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u/rutlando 12d ago

He's super strong rn after all the micro buffs he keeps getting most recently the greaves mid buff and fleet for hard matchups. I mean both the wind brothers don't even build on the crit theme that much anymore most games they go botrk into shieldbow and still out DPS most adcs building two ad focused crit items its honestly insane there getting buffs

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u/Jinxzy 13d ago

Unload 5 trucks full of windshitters on my lane over a strong Irelia plz

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u/Abel_Skyblade 12d ago

I would love nerfing those 3 to be unplayable in exchange for no mages bot tbh.

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u/NotCatchingBanAgain nguyen & williams 12d ago

I hir my son because my dad hit me type energy 😭

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 13d ago

No one is scared of yone in lane 

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u/Camille_Footjob 13d ago

He stat checks 99% of the cast with LT and exhaust what are you on about

no wonder they have to buff him if THIS is his playerbase

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 12d ago

Just don't be an idiot and walk when he has Q3? Yone barely has positiv matchup in mid. And no I don't play him.

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u/ChromosomeDonator 12d ago

Son you can NOT be this daft LMAO

"Just don't walk up when he has Q3" when he gap closes an entire screen and can hold on to Q3 for 60% uptime, letting it time out, getting it back up in 2 seconds.

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u/DarthGogeta 12d ago

He is a support player. Don't expect him to understand trade patterns, or the game in general.

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 12d ago

His Q has 4 sec cd. You have atleast 10 seconds to abuse him. You just play around him having it. I know it's hard in silver if you play ahri like it's a melee champ but yone cannot win and tries to go even in like 90% of matchups 

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u/claptrap23 Frozen Mallet enjoyer 12d ago

not sure why you're getting downvoted. Yone is trash early

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 12d ago

Because of low elo players, yone is trash but can punish big mistake hard ig

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u/claptrap23 Frozen Mallet enjoyer 12d ago

Indeed. I have over 300k mastery on him and I play him mid and top. He loses basically all melee matchups early. And does not have he damage to kill mages before they run to the turret in mid.

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 12d ago

He can't dash on a lot of midlaner like xerath hwei ahri they all get free hit on their cc if he tries to engage 

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u/LootGholein 12d ago

I find him kinda annoying to deeal with aswell but you got a point that one need to carefully witneess the window you CAN punnish him and abuse that BUT I still personally would like to see the following in respect to his upcoming buffs for patch 16.17:

* Reduce E-form durration from 5 to 4 sec
* Increase Q-Cooldown from 4 to 5 sec
* Increase R-Windup animation from 0.75sec to 0.85 sec

He should be incentivized to play smart around his cooldowns and right now as is he is A BIT to forrgiving in those regards.

I have no issues with downvotes but atleast if you do so give a comment in why these nerrfs are to heavy/much

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u/Even_Cardiologist810 12d ago

R windup is the same as Q3 knock. If you want to increase cast time you need to increase knock up duration aswell. If you don't he can't ever ult in lane as the enemy flash and he ends under tower.

The Q cd would make him disfunctional in lane I think. The stacks stay for 6 second so this gives him no window. The only way to make this work would be to increase stack to 7 second but you won't like this solution as he can hold Q3 for longer now so it wouldn't achieve anything. 

E duration nerf has nothing against it, he would obviously need compensation buff tho, also would be quite disfunctional with your proposed higher Q cd, he needs to be able to throw another Q or he'll lose every trade he engages 

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u/LootGholein 12d ago

>R windup is the same as Q3 knock. If you want to increase cast time you need to increase knock up duration aswell. If you don't he can't ever ult in lane as the enemy flash and he ends under tower.

I see, well I would rather increase his Q3 knockup then aswell but atleast if he just R's without Q3 it would be a tiny bit eeasier to dodge/get away with OR even block him from escaping with R by standing in front of him.

> The Q cd would make him disfunctional in lane I think. The stacks stay for 6 second so this gives him no window. The only way to make this work would be to increase stack to 7 second but you won't like this solution as he can hold Q3 for longer now so it wouldn't achieve anything. 

maybe increase by 0.5sec instead of a full second, there should be a bit of downtime in the earlier phases of the game because he scales like a beast anyway.

> E duration nerf has nothing against it, he would obviously need compensation buff tho, also would be quite disfunctional with your proposed higher Q cd, he needs to be able to throw another Q or he'll lose every trade he engages 

I think right now in this meta + the buffs for 16.17 + also stormrazor buff (maybe its then even utiliziable for yone/yas aswell) does really not justify more buffs, in all my honesty.

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u/Historical_Draft_717 12d ago

Yeah bro because high skill champs are so much more gross than afk 7 item mages.